“I think what's important is to look at your own obsessions, whether it's a family tale that you remember and wonder about, like some missing great grandmother whom you’ve heard stories about, or maybe something happened in your town years ago, and you thought, well, that's a weird story.”

Members Only author Sameer Pandya talks with Yoojin Na about the ideal measure of novelistic time, India, layered moments in fiction, and the grace of tennis.

“…love complicates things as it should.”

“Half my year I don't write at all because I’m fishing.”

Chipper? Builder? I'm neither. When I'm writing, I'm a blindfolded man trying to play tennis.

Well, I spent thirteen months in Anbar province in Iraq at a time when that area was undergoing tremendous change, and I was a public affairs officer so I got to travel a decent amount and talk to a lot of people who played a role in that.